Jaroslav Vrchlický
Jaroslav Vrchlický , actually Emilius Jakob Frida (born February 17, 1853 in Louny , † September 9, 1912 in Domažlice ) was a Czech poet and translator.
Life
Frída used the pseudonym Jaroslav Vrchlický for his work . Victor Hugo's student was inspired by this to create his “Fragments of the Human Epic”. After early love poems, he turned to national-patriotic themes in his legend of St. Procopius (1879) and the farm workers' ballads (1886).
He also translated into Czech European classics such as The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri or the fist of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Vrchlický also made works by Charles Baudelaire , Mary Shelley , Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman available to a wide audience in the Czech Republic. In 1893 he became professor of European literature at the (Czech) Charles University in Prague . From 1901 he was a member of the Austrian manor house .
Works (selection)
Poetry
- Legenda o sv. Prokopu ( legend of St. Prokop ; 1879)
- Zlomky Epopeje ( agricultural workers ballads ; 1886)
- Korálové ostrovy
- Písně poutníka
- From long distances (translated by Marie Rix-Meisl, Vitalis, Prague 2000. ISBN 80-7253-014-3 )
drama
- Noc na Karlštejně (1884) comedy
- Bar Kochba (1897)
Libretti
- Svatá Ludmila ( The Holy Ludmilla ). Sacred opera (together with Václav Juda Novotný). Music (1901): Antonín Dvořák . WP 1901
- Armida . Opera. Music (1902/03): Antonín Dvořák. WP 1904
In anthologies
- Czech anthology: Vrchlicky. Sova . Brezina . Transferred from Paul Eisner. Austrian Library , 21; Insel-Bücherei 106th Insel, Leipzig 1917, 1922
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Vrchlický, Jaroslav . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 52nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1885, pp. 2–4 ( digitized version ).
- Vítězslav Tichý: Jaroslav Vrchlický . Život (biography). Hrách, Praha [1942] (Czech).
- Birgit Krehl, Irina Wutsdorff; Herta Schmid (ed.): Vrchlický and Czech symbolism. Chapter on poetics, contributions to the International Bohemian Vrchlický Symposium at the University of Potsdam from December 4 to 7, 1997. In Die Welt der Slawen, edited volumes; Volume 18, Sagner, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-87690-834-5 .
- Frida, Emil, Ps. Jaroslav Vrchlický. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 361.
- V. Petrbok: Frida, Emil; Ps. Jaroslav Vrchlický , in: ÖBL Online-Edition, Lfg. 7, 2018
Web links
- Frída, Emil Dr. phil. . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Literature by and about Jaroslav Vrchlický in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Jaroslav Vrchlický in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vrchlický, Jaroslav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frída, Emil Bohuslav (real name); Frída, Emil Bohuš |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Louny |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1912 |
| Place of death | Domažlice |